Stobaeus, Volume II

Name: Stobaeus, Volume II
Author: John Stobaeus

Greek and English with an introduction and explanatory footnotes.

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Book II Chapter 7 · II.7.12

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p. 384

Πέρας τῆς τῶν Στωικῶν ἐκθέσεως

II.7.12

Ταῦτα μὲν ἐπὶ τοσοῦτον. Περὶ γὰρ πάντων τῶν παραδόξων δογμάτων ἐν πολλοῖς μὲν καὶ ἄλλοις ὁ Χρύσιππος διελέχθη· καὶ γὰρ ἐν τῷ Περὶ δογμάτων καὶ ἐν τῇ Ὑπογραφῇ τοῦ λόγου καὶ ἐν ἄλλοις πολλοῖς τῶν κατὰ μέρος συγγραμμάτων. Ἐγὼ δ’ ὁπόσα προὐθέμην ἐπελθεῖν ἐν κεφαλαίοις τῶν ἠθικῶν δογμάτων ⟨τῶν⟩ κατὰ τὴν τῶν Στωικῶν φιλοσόφων αἵρεσιν διεληλυθὼς ἱκανῶς ἤδη τοῦτον τὸν ὑπομνηματισμὸν αὐτόθι καταπαύσω.

Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7

p. 385

Conclusion of the Stoic Account

II.7.12

Let that suffice for these matters. Chrysippus discussed all the paradoxical doctrines in many other places: in On Doctrines, in Outline of the Argument, and in many other writings on particular subjects.⁵¹³ Having now adequately covered in summary the ethical doctrines ⟨that⟩ accord with the school of the Stoic philosophers, so far as I proposed to go through them, I shall end this memorandum here.⁵¹⁴

513.Παράδοξα are doctrines contrary to ordinary expectation or opinion; the word does not by itself declare them contradictions. The two named works belong to Chrysippus. Their titles are references to fuller discussions, not promises that those works will be reproduced in this volume.

514.The first-person speaker belongs to the ethical exposition preserved by Stobaeus; it is not this translator announcing the end of the book. Wachsmuth supplies τῶν to introduce the qualification of the ethical doctrines, expressed by bracketed “that” in English. Ἐν κεφαλαίοις is in summary or under principal heads, and ὑπομνηματισμός is a memorandum or written account. This concludes the Stoic account, not Chapter 7. The next section, II.7.13, turns to Aristotle and the other Peripatetics.

About This Reading Edition

The complete surviving text of Stobaeus’s second book, through II.46.22, in Ancient Greek and English, with an introduction and 1,541 explanatory notes. All forty-six chapter headings remain, including the notices for chapters whose texts are missing.

Historical Text and Translation

Greek: Curt Wachsmuth, Ioannis Stobaei Anthologii libri duo priores, volumen II (Berlin: Weidmann, 1884), printed p. 1 and pp. 3–264. The supplied edition preserves consequential editorial signs, reconstructed joins, qualified attributions, and missing-text notices. English translation, introduction, and explanatory notes: Diotimos Editions, 2026.

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